Purpose

The greatest idea since ice cream, pre-sliced bread and Chinese takeout actually came well before any of those three. The freedom of the consumer (emptor, in the original Latin) to choose, opened doors long thought to be walls of solid stone. Goods never before dreamed became as commonly available as bread and water.

As a matter of fact, as time passed, the consumer almost became king (rex in the original Latin). Power transferred into the buyers' hands as governments were relegated to the tiny fenced-in territories, specified by wise men upon bygone and decaying pieces of parchment (compacts and constitutions in their original contexts).

Having tasted some freedom to choose where and how they would live, a concept largely unimagined until the 17th century, men flourished, invented, thrived and moved well beyond the level of mere subsistence and servitude.

Those with the ambition to rule, however, do not share their power, and the peace was short lived. Tyrants, a breed once believed dead, quietly waited and regrouped in shadows as free men breathed sweet air.

These tyrannical men had learned much. The sovereign was no longer respected. Men did not fear the hand of God against them if they disobeyed a king. So, instead of a single focal point for the beam of their tyranny, these clever men devised a prism, breaking the power across a spectrum of the politically motivated. They invented collective power, and by happy accident, collective blame.

No longer shall it be that taxes are given to an evil and "greedy" king; they go instead to "serve the public good," the Union. If the parliament writes an unjust law and the judiciary upholds it there is no recourse because "the people have spoken." A slim majority of a tiny elite group of men can now and forevermore rule the whole, and in the United States of America, 275 men now rule over 300 million.

Some argue that the number should be distributed more evenly through direct democracy. They suggest that perhaps it would be better if 150 million, plus one, ruled over 300 million. What strikes this writer as odd is that few suggest a true democracy of 300 million ruling over 300 million, or better stated, one ruling over one.

Why not fully enthrone the consumer as the ruler of his own existence? What is there to fear? Naughty men and knaves abound presently. Their number can pick a pocket through taxation, enslave through military and civil conscription, and imprison men for acts committed against no other man save the illusory "society."

Where is the enraged populace, tired of giving any portion of their earnings to unjust rulers? Why are there no mobs in the street when police enter an innocent man's home and kill him because they have mistaken his address for another? If lawyers and politicians are believed corrupt, then why is it that when they become Presidents, Justices, Congressmen and Senators that they transform into men of virtue?

The purpose of this website is to ask and answer those questions in detail.

As founder of this repository of thought and discourse on the value of liberty, I am no man of great education. I have no power or authority. I own no land. My only aim is to share my love of freedom and free people.

--M.A. Hargett,
Founder, EmptorRex.com